15.45. Version 4.3.8 (2014-02-25)

Oracle VM VirtualBox

15.45. Version 4.3.8 (2014-02-25)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

  • VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)

  • VMM: fixed a VERR_INVALID_RPL Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350)

  • VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the user manual how to enable it (bug #8651)

  • VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization

  • GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see Section 9.28, “Support for keyboard indicators synchronization”

  • GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)

  • GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)

  • GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button

  • GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator

  • GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types (bug #12533)

  • GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657)

  • GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings / Input page (bug #12730)

  • GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression)

  • VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times

  • AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances

  • AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances

  • AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)

  • AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions

  • AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions

  • AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes

  • NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441)

  • NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1

  • NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly

  • NAT Network: ping proxy implemented

  • OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345)

  • OVF: several fixes

  • 3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)

  • 3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)

  • 3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)

  • VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649)

  • USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances

  • BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives

  • API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)

  • VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see Section 9.26, “Handling of host power management events”) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event (bug #9925)

  • VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups (bug #12569)

  • VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin (bug #12713)

  • Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)

  • Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network (bug #12241)

  • Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores

  • Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)

  • Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)

  • Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596)

  • Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)

  • Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)

  • Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users

  • Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade

  • Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables

  • Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505)

  • Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels

  • Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted

  • X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)